Sankar Das Sarma () is an India-born American theoretical condensed matter physicist, who has worked in the broad research topics of theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, and quantum information. He has been a member of the Department of Physics at University of Maryland, College Park since 1980. Das Sarma is the Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics, a Distinguished University Professor, a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), and the Director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Das Sarma has co-authored more than 800 articles in the Physical Review Journal series of the American Physical Society, including more than 150 publications in Physical Review Letters. Das Sarma coauthored several well-known and highly-cited review articles on spintronics, non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation, graphene, and Majorana zero modes. With more than 90,000 citations to his publications and with more than 150 publications garnering more than 100 citations each, he is one of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Highly-Cited Researchers as well as a Web of Science Highly Cited and Most Influential Researcher. Das Sarma has been one of the Highly-Cited Researchers of the Web of Science, continuously during the 2001-2021 time period and is among the most cited theoretical physicists in the 21st century. Das Sarma is the most cited author in the journal npj Quantum Information. Career Das Sarma came to the United States of America from India as a physics graduate student in 1974 after finishing his secondary school (Hare School in Kolkata) and undergraduate education at Presidency College in Calcutta, India (now Presidency University in Kolkata) where he was born. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Brown University in 1979 as a doctoral student of John Quinn. In collaboration with Chetan Nayak and Michael Freedman of Microsoft Research, Das Sarma introduced the topological qubit in 2005, which has led to experiments in building a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on two-dimensional semiconductor structures. Das Sarma's work on graphene has led to the theoretical understanding of graphene carrier transport properties at low densities where the inhomogeneous electron-hole puddles dominate the graphene landscape. In 2006 Das Sarma with Euyheon Hwang provided the basic theory for collective modes and dielectric response in graphene and related chiral two-dimensional materials. This work is a Milestone in the Physical Review. In 2011 Das Sarma and collaborators introduced a new class